gr-osmosdr setting value in destructor

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Dimitri Stolnikov horiz0n at gmx.net
Sun Jan 10 21:52:05 UTC 2016


Hi Jiri, i'd be happy to accept such patch.

Best regards,
Dimitri

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:58:53 +0200, P <j-pi at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is in gr-osmosdr a lot of code like:
>
> hackrf_source_c::~hackrf_source_c ()
> {
> ...
>     free(_buf);
>     _buf = NULL;
>   }
> }
>
> Setting value in destructor have sense in two case:
>   - they are used in some way in destructor of parent class
>   - You set then to something like 0xDEADBEEF and when pointer
>     from already destroyed class is used it will cause segfault.
>
> Setting value to NULL is contraproductive because there is a lot of
> checks if value is not NULL, this actually can hide some troubles of
> calling something using already freed pointer.
>
> I'm suggesting to remove this kind of code. I will prepare patch but now
> I'm waiting if those two pending patches I have send before would be
> accepter or not.
>
> Is there any opinion which oppose previous claim?
>
> With best regards,
> 	JP.



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